Associate Professor Mahshid!
We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara Mahshid has been awarded tenure! Please join us in celebrating this well-deserved recognition.
A congratulatory message from our Department Chair, Adam Hendricks: "Congratulations, Sara! Your contributions to the department and university over the past several years have been truly impressive. I’m honored to have you as a colleague."
Virtual Exhibition in McGill Libraries Featuring Prof. Reznikov’s Research
The Department of Bioengineering invites you to come to the McGill Libraries and examine digital 3D reconstructions of rare objects preserved in various Montreal museums! Using touch tables the size of a TV screen installed at the Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering, and the McLennan Library Building, you can zoom and rotate 3D models as part of a virtual natural history museum.
Prof. Ignea receives two Faculty Scholar Awards
The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Professor Codruta Ignea on receiving two prestigious Faculty Scholar Awards:
Scott Taylor ELATE Faculty Scholar in Engineering Education Research - from ELATE
Congratulations Prof. Mahshid! 2025 PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award
The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate Professor Sara Mahshid on being selected as the recipient of the 2025
Bioengineering Department Retreat at McGill's Gault Nature Reserve
The Department of Bioengineering enjoyed a fun and enriching retreat at the Gault Nature Reserve on Monday, April 28. Faculty and staff came together to connect and share ideas in the reserve’s beautiful natural setting. A big thank you to everyone who took part and helped make the day memorable. The department now looks ahead to another exciting year! (April 2025)
Third Edition of the Sustainability and Synthetic Biology Conference
We're excited to announce that the third edition of the Sustainability and Synthetic Biology Conference is coming up!
BBMESS symposium: coming up in May!
We're excited to announce that the annual BBMESS Symposium is coming up soon! This two-day event will take place in the SSMU Ballroom (3480 Rue McTavish) on May 5-6, 2025. For full details, including the schedule, registration fees, and keynote speakers, please click here.
Prof. Ehrlicher receives prestigious CIHR Project Grant
The Department of Bioengineering would like to congratulate Professor Allen Ehrlicher for his recent CIHR Project Grant. Professor Ehrlicher's project aims to explore how mechanical forces, such as compression of the nucleus, affect cellular aging and stem cell differentiation, particularly in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS).
iGEM Winter 2025 Applications Open!
iGEM McGill is recruiting! Join an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students to develop a synthetic biology project over the course of a year. We spend the winter semester on design, planning wet lab/dry lab projects, as well as related initiatives under our education, media, outreach, entrepreneurship, and finance subteams. The summer is then dedicated to full time wet lab (or dry lab) work.
CUBEC coming up on Jan 25th
The Canadian Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Conference (CUBEC) is set to take place this January 25th, 9am - 6pm, at The Neuro on McGill University campus! CUBEC is an event bringing together passionate students (CEGEP, undergraduate, and graduate) and industry professionals in the field of biomedical engineering. Events include panel discussions with professionals from both academia and industry, workshops, case competition, and a networking event.
McGill iGEM Achieves Gold Medal and Three Nominations at the Grand Jamboree
McGill IGEM team proudly secured a gold medal along with three nominations for Best Diagnostics, Best Software, and Best Parts Collection at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Grand Jamboree in October 2024. Composed of students from the Bioengineering program and various disciplines within the Faculty of Science, McGill iGEM team is supervised by Prof. Codruta Ignea and Prof. Lisa Munter.
Plenary Speaker - IEEE EMBC 2024
The department of Bioengineering wishes to congratulate Prof. Brandon Xia on being selected as a plenary speaker at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The conference was held in Orlando, Florida. Read more here (July 2024).
Bioengineering brings home the gold!
Voted by the EUS as Department of the Year, a lot of the excitement around Bioengineering's sudden rise to stardom is last year’s 1st place at the 2023 iGEM Grand Jamboree. Read more here (May 2024).
Vadasz scholar leads the way
This year, PhD student, Asia Vighi will be the graduate instructor for the undergraduate team competing at iGem. Vighi is a Vadasz scholar in the Faculty. Read more here (May 2024).
Winning iGEM 2023
Dan Voicu (BEng’26), co-lead of the 2023 McGill iGEM team, described last year’s experience as busy! Students formed the team at the end of 2022 and spent the first two months of 2023 ideating their proposal. Read more here (May 2024).